Posted on 11/16/2023 6:11:00 AM PST by MtnClimber
“Proportional” refers to an attack’s enemy combatant/enemy civilian death/injury ratios.
“Proportional” does not refer to any IDF/Gazan fighter death/injury ratio. It is perfectly OK for the IDF to kill 100 Jihadists in an attack and not suffer a single loss itself.
If the IDF can spot a Jihadist, so can a Gazan civilian. Gazan civilians should be aware of what the IDF will do to Jihadists and stay far away from them.
--Says the losing side in a war.
Proportional? The last thing one wants to do is have a “fair” fight.
STALEMATE. Endless killing with nothing resolved and no outcome. I can see why the RAT politicians think war should be “proportional.”
Even more than that, it has revealed the sordid state of education, our so called media, and our elected officials. All of it adds up to something really bad, not as horrific as Hamas, but certainly moving in that direction.
As usual, VDH hits the nail on the head.
I pray you are correct.
Every war the US has been involved with since Korea!!
We no longer fight to win (using more force, bigger bombs, maiming production capabilities, etc.), we fight to get to a “fair and equitable” stalemate!
When Israel moves quickly, lives are saved...
ping
Based on the reasoning of proportional responses , our proportional response to Pearl Harbor , should have been us bombing some Japanese military bases. And not waging total war against the enemy to defeat them.
WWII was the last war we fought properly.
Maybe things have changed since I was in the military, but we were taught that OVERWHELMING FORCE was the only way to victory with minimum casulties to our troops. Maybe things are different in today’s ‘woke’ war colleges. I hope not.
The people calling for “proportionality” are simply begging that Hamas be allowed to live to massacre Jews another day.
You kill them until they get tired of getting killed.
You kill them until they get tired of getting killed.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki had some military significance but not a great deal. In effect the bombing was a terror raid and it worked! It broke the will of Japan to resist and saved countless American lives. Oddly it saved literally millions of Japanese lives. We had total dominance in the air over Japan. We would have methodically bombed their infrastructure and cities for months before invasion. Japans losses due to bombing, starvation, and disease would have been horrific.
The atomic bomb worked.
I like the concept of proportionality. Take out a portion today and tomorrow and the next days until no portions are left.
It's also how you get 30-year, Dick Cheney/Robert McNamara type wars.
I can not understand how you can be normal mentally and not understand that.
“The atomic bomb worked.”
One of my neighbors as a kid was in the Philippines getting ready for the invasion of the Japanese mainland when Fat Man and Little Boy did their job. He lived to come home, marry, father four children and have a good life. He would probably have died in an invasion.
Untold millions would have died in an invasion.
Even Ozzy Osbourne knows the value of the bomb.
War is just another game
Tailor made for the insane
But make a threat of their annihilation
And nobody wants to play
If that’s the only thing that keeps the peace
Then thank God for the bomb
Thank God for the bomb
Thank God for the bomb
Thank God for the bomb
Nuke you, nuke you
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